Welcome to Clean Beaches Coalition
The Clean Beaches Coalition (CBC) is a network of coastal organizations and individuals committed to promoting clean, healthy and well managed beaches around the world. We are home to the following initiatives:
Blue Wave Program - America's first environmental certification for beaches.
National Clean Beaches Awareness - the "earth" day for beaches.
Blue Wave Program - America's first environmental certification for beaches.
National Clean Beaches Awareness - the "earth" day for beaches.
CBC Releases List of Clean and Healthy Beaches
Clean Beaches Vital to US Economic Recovery
(Washington, DC) – The Clean Beaches Coalition today released its annual list of beaches which have been officially certified as clean, healthy and environmentally well managed.
This year beaches in twenty states and U.S. territories, including American Samoa, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin, are on the list. (See complete list below).
Every year, American families travel to the coast to enjoy the ocean breezes, playing on sandy beaches, fishing in the open seas, or surfing with our children. Annually, Americans make over 2 billion visits to ocean, gulf, and inland beaches. Coastal counties, including beach recreation and tourism contribute over $5 trillion dollars annually to the U.S. economy. However, the Great Recession continues to drain critical economic funding away from coastal protection, sustainable tourism and resource management.
Press Release/2011 Clean Beaches List
This year beaches in twenty states and U.S. territories, including American Samoa, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin, are on the list. (See complete list below).
Every year, American families travel to the coast to enjoy the ocean breezes, playing on sandy beaches, fishing in the open seas, or surfing with our children. Annually, Americans make over 2 billion visits to ocean, gulf, and inland beaches. Coastal counties, including beach recreation and tourism contribute over $5 trillion dollars annually to the U.S. economy. However, the Great Recession continues to drain critical economic funding away from coastal protection, sustainable tourism and resource management.
Press Release/2011 Clean Beaches List
Obamas Should Vacation on Gulf Coast This Summer
(Exerts from Robert Guttman/Huffington Post)
"Everybody should come here", exclaimed First Lady Michelle Obama earlier this week as she walked the beaches in Florida on the Gulf Coast.
"There are still thousands of miles of beaches not touched by the spill," the First Lady proclaimed during her walk to promote tourism in the states along the Gulf of Mexico affected by the disastrous oil spill.
The question that immediately came to my mind is why then are the President and his family going in the opposite direction to Maine for several days on a vacation.
With tourism taking a huge hit because of the terrible oil spill and the incompetence of BP and the federal government to stop the leak, wouldn't it be wonderful if the President and his family checked into a nice motel in Alabama along the coast for a few nights and had some seafood at a small businesspersons' restaurant.
Then they could move onto a luxury hotel if they felt like it in Florida along the Panhandle and finish up in Mississippi and Lousiana and end up in New Orleans for some delicious seafood and great jazz.
And the Vice-President and his wife should do the same as should all the senior White House officials and all of the Cabinet Secretaries.
The president should show the American public that the beaches are clean and the seafood is safe to eat. What better way than spending a week or two with his family in all of the affected states along the Gulf of Mexico.
Go to Florida, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana on your summer vacation Mr. President and convince your Vice-President, senior staff and Cabinet Secretaries to also vacation in the Gulf States.
It would absolutely be the right thing to do and your poll numbers would also begin to climb!
"Everybody should come here", exclaimed First Lady Michelle Obama earlier this week as she walked the beaches in Florida on the Gulf Coast.
"There are still thousands of miles of beaches not touched by the spill," the First Lady proclaimed during her walk to promote tourism in the states along the Gulf of Mexico affected by the disastrous oil spill.
The question that immediately came to my mind is why then are the President and his family going in the opposite direction to Maine for several days on a vacation.
With tourism taking a huge hit because of the terrible oil spill and the incompetence of BP and the federal government to stop the leak, wouldn't it be wonderful if the President and his family checked into a nice motel in Alabama along the coast for a few nights and had some seafood at a small businesspersons' restaurant.
Then they could move onto a luxury hotel if they felt like it in Florida along the Panhandle and finish up in Mississippi and Lousiana and end up in New Orleans for some delicious seafood and great jazz.
And the Vice-President and his wife should do the same as should all the senior White House officials and all of the Cabinet Secretaries.
The president should show the American public that the beaches are clean and the seafood is safe to eat. What better way than spending a week or two with his family in all of the affected states along the Gulf of Mexico.
Go to Florida, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana on your summer vacation Mr. President and convince your Vice-President, senior staff and Cabinet Secretaries to also vacation in the Gulf States.
It would absolutely be the right thing to do and your poll numbers would also begin to climb!
